September 22, 2017ALEXANDRIA, Va. — After nine years of fits and starts, dismissals and reinstatements, a federal lawsuit filed by one-time inmates at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq against civilian...
September 22, 2017Thirteen years after leaving Abu Ghraib prison, and nine years after filing suit in federal court, a group of former Iraqi detainees got to make the case before a judge in Alexandria, Va., on Friday...
October 10, 2017The Supreme Court will hear arguments tomorrow in Jesner v. Arab Bank ostensibly on the question of whether the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) applies to corporations. There is a risk, however, that the...
November 16, 2017, New York – In response to the new stop-and-frisk training materials that will be used to train all NYPD patrol officers, sergeants, and lieutenants over the next 18 months to 2...
January 24, 2018...A legal and educational nonprofit also recently spearheaded two cases related to the Bayou Bridge pipeline, calling for public records requests to be filled. On January 3, the Center for...
January 30, 2018, New York – In response to the announcement by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Commissioner James O’Neill that the New York City Police Department will be speeding up the expansion of its...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights to hear oral arguments on a motion to dismiss in Turkmen v. Ashcroft , a CCR lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and...
Updated: March 15, 2018
Please join CCR and partners in court as Angelo Guisado and Britney Wilson argue in Furlow v Belmar , a case pending in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, that...
Updated: February 27, 2018
Chinyere Ezie is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she advocates for racial and gender justice; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI)...
January 11, 2019, New York – Yesterday, in response to a Superior Court ruling in New Jersey that categorically rejected certain fines levied against the Ramapough Lenape Nation for placing a sacred...
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